Technology
Google
bets on Android’s
future G
oogle has made no research of its ambitions in the
mobile space. There are mobile versions of all its key services, such as search, e-mail and calendar.
But the company is going much further. At the end of 2007 it lifted the lid on Android, an
open mobile operating system that is being used to power a new generation of devices under the Open Handset Alliance, a group which involves firms like HTC and chip designer ARM.
Android is the creation of Andy Rubin, Google’s director of mobile platforms. He believes that a lack of openness in the mobile phone space has stifled to
greater variety of mobile experiences- driven not by the rules and regulations of an operating system but by the ideas of developers.
In essence, it could lead to greater variety of
phones and of what those phones are capable. Google has formed the Open Handset Alliance, with manufacturing partners like HTC and chip designers like ARM.
Mr Rubin says open nature of Android will let developers take advantage of the web, of other applications, of phone’s hardware capabilities, from 3D graphics to multimedia capabilities.
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